2025 Awardees
Informatics Summit

Nour Abosamak, MD
PhD Student
Virginia Commonwealth University

Sonia Akter
PhD Student
University of Missouri

Jun Hou
PhD Student
Virginia Tech

Yikuan Li
PhD Student
Northwestern University

Zeineb Sassi
Doctoral Researcher and PhD Student
University of Regensburg

Shruthi Venkatesh
Graduate and Medical Student
University of Pittsburgh
2024 Awardees
Annual Symposium

Derek Baughman, MD
Graduate Student
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Inessa M. Cohen
PhD Student
Yale University

Marisa L. Conte, MLIS, AHIP
PhD Student
University of Michigan

Hyelee Kim, MD, MAS, MS, PhD (c)
PhD Candidate
University of California San Francisco

Seunghwan Kim
PhD Student
Washington University in St. Louis

Guangxia Meng, RN, BScN (hons), MN, NP-Adult, PhD (c)
PhD Candidate
University of Waterloo

Scott Vennemeyer, BS
PhD Student
University of Cincinnati

Faisal Yaseen
PhD Student
University of Washington
Clinical Informatics Conference

Allie Bodin, MPH, CPH
Health Data Analytics and Informatics Manager
Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence (MOCPHE)

Pallavi Dutta, BSc, MSc
Medical Student
Queen's University

Abimbola Fadairo-Azinge, MD, MPH, MMCI
Clinical Informatics Fellow
University of California, San Francisco

Gregory Kell, MPhil
Doctoral Student
King's College London

Ayomide Owoyemi, MD, MScPH
PhD Student
University of Illinois at Chicago

Alan Pan, MS
Doctoral Student
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston
Informatics Summit

Noah Forrest, MD, PhD
PhD Student
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Tina Yi Jin Hsieh, MD, MPH
Graduate Student
Harvard Medical School

Kary Ishwaran
Undergraduate Student
University of Toronto

Eliana Marostica, MBI
Medical Student
Harvard Medical School

Lorna Pairman, MB, ChB
PhD Student
University of Otago

Pankhuri Singhal, PhD
T32 Genomic Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
2023 Awardees
Annual Symposium

Karen Joy
PhD Student
Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information

Inyoung Jun
PhD Student
University of Florida

Jeanne Powell
PhD Student
Emory University, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Program and Biomedical Informatics Department

Ruba Sajdeya
PhD Student
University of Florida

Kiana Tavakoli
MD Research Fellow
Shiley Eye Institute

Brittany Taylor
PhD Candidate
Columbia University School of Nursing

Christian Tejeda
Graduate Student
Brown University School of Public Health

Kimia Zandbiglari
PhD Student
University of Florida, Department of Outcomes & Policy Department
Clinical Informatics Conference

Derek Shu
Medical Student
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine MD Program

Anindita Rajamani
Undergraduate Student
University of Minnesota Computer Science

Alexander Chang, BA, BS
MD-PhD Student
University of Pittsburgh – Carnegie Mellon University

Lu He, BS
PhD Candidate
University of California Irvine

Brian Douthit, PhD, RN-BC
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medical Informatics & Quality Improvement
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Navpreet Kamboj, RN, MScN, PhD
PhD Candidate
University of Toronto, Canada
Informatics Summit

Marco Florian Aigner, BSc
Graduate Student Medical Informatics M.Sc.
University of Heidelberg & University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn

Khuder Alaboud, PhD
Doctoral Student
University of Missouri-Columbia (MU)

Elizabeth Campbell, MS, MSPH, PHD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics

Chi Ching Vivian Hui, RN, BSN, PhD
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Nursing, Centre for Smart Health Hung Hom
Hong Kong

Cerag Oguztuzun, PhD
Doctoral Student
Case Western Reserve University

Xianghao Zhan, PhD
Doctoral Candidate
Stanford University
2022 Awardees

Marco Barbero Mota, BSc, MRes
Master's Student in Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University

Bradley Carlson, BS
Master's Student in Biomedical Informatics and MD (Dual degree program)
University of Chicago

Youmin Cho, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC
PhD Student
University of Michigan

Vince Hartman
Master's Student
Cornell Tech

Humayera Islam, MS
Doctoral Student
University of Missouri-Columbia

Nishant Jain, MS, MHA
Doctoral Candidate
University of Missouri-Columbia MU Institute of Data Science & Informatics (MUIDSI)

Jane Jarshaw
Medical Student
University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine

Sebastien Kiogou, MS
Doctoral Candidate
University of Minnesota Institute for Health Informatics

Fuchen Li
Research Assistant
Vanderbilt University

Kevin Patel, MD
Neonatology Fellow
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jacqueline Penn
Doctoral Candidate
Thomas Jefferson University - Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Malvika Pillai
PhD Student
UNC Carolina Health Informatics Program

Venkata Pragada, BDS, MS
Master of Science Student in Biomedical Informatics
Arizona State University

Olabode Ogundele
PhD Student
University of Missouri-Columbia, Institute of Data Science and Informatics

Sayantani Sarkar
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Davis

Shanshan Song
PhD Student
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Health Sciences Informatics

Aaron Tierney, BA
Health Policy PhD Candidate, Organizations and Management Track
UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Mengying Yan, BS, MS
PhD Candidate
Duke University

Yonah Ziemba, MD
Fellow Physician
Northwell Health
2021 Awardees

Lisa Dirks, MS, MLIS
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Washington Information School

Bradley Iott, MPH
Doctoral Candidate in Information Science & Health Services Organization
University of Michigan, School of Public Health

Grace Y.E. Kim, MS
Masters Candidate in Computer Science
Stanford University

Patrick Lawrence
Doctoral Candidate in Biomedical Informatics
The Ohio State University

Siru (Ashley) Liu, PhD
Vanderbilt University

Sabrina Mangal, RN, PhD
Post-Doctoral Associate
Weill Cornell Medicine

Geetanjali Rajamani
Doctoral Candidate in Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School